[eluser]TheFuzzy0ne[/eluser]
Hi everyone.
I need to create a part of my site so that I can upload a product catalogue (with images), so that it can be parsed and the data placed into the database. Can anyone think of a good way to achieve this?
It sounds like a simple enough thing to do, but I can't seem to think of an easy way to link the products with their images, other than renaming each image to correspond to the product in the catalogue, or adding the name of the image to the catalogue. Ideally, I would like some kind of drag and drop solution, but I'm not sure how to implement it. I can drag a file onto a text input (which places the file path and name into the box), but it doesn't help since I need to try group them before they are uploaded, for simplicity.
Unfortunately, Open Office Spreadsheet doesn't seem to support similar drag and drop functionality. Instead, I end up with the actual image displayed inside the spreadsheet, which is lost as soon as I save the file to XML or CVS.
Hopefully I have explained my situation clearly enough, please let me know if I am making no sense. I can think of several methods to achieve what I want, but each have their downfalls.
Many thanks in advance.